Hi:
I'm quite new with courier, and I've a server running it since a few days
for testing. I another discussion list about other mail server, someone
wrote:
"No doubt!  Courier has an interesting (and evidently fairly well-known)
little problem where you can "freak" it out and it'll spawn dozens of child
processes and start "sending" itself so many messages that it'll bring your
system logger to its knees by overloading it (sending it waaaaaaaay too much
data waaaaay too fast for it to process or even queue to "catch up") by an
order of magnitude and ultimately panic the kernel.  I've seen that happen
frequently enough in Courier that I call it "the loop of death."  Its
test-script simulates something like that on a smaller scale (so you can
determine whether your system logger will have a problem in the event this
as yet unresolved bug rears its ugly head) but in operation, if it seems to
get something in a message header it didn't quite expect, watch out!"

Is this true? I'm using the last version, 0.37.2.

Leonardo



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